Examples of goldfield in a Sentence
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At Los Padres National Forest along the Central California coast, swaths of California poppies, California buttercups, purple shooting stars and goldfields fill the slopes.
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
The orphan bachelors were the men who, during that period, came to work in America’s goldfields, on its railroads, or in its restaurants and laundries.
—Mae Ngai, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2023
Gold rush fever spread like lightning across the country, and the West Coast was inundated with fortune hunters impatient for their ride north, their chance at the goldfields.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
However, comfortable was no match for supposedly easy fortunes waiting in the Yukon goldfields.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
The monument’s dusty topography has erupted in color: yellow from the hillside daisies, goldfields and tidy tips, whose ends are frosted white; purple from the phacelia and wild hyacinth; azure splashes from the lupine and baby blue eyes.
—Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
So the invasives can't handle it, but the goldfields are uniquely adapted to it.
—Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
In California’s Central Valley, Purple phacelia and yellow goldfields abound at Carrizo Plain National Monument, a grassland roughly 70 miles west of Bakersfield.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
Carpets of yellow goldfields and purple phacelia have unfurled at the Carrizo Plain National Monument, the largest intact grassland in the state’s Central Valley, about 70 miles west of Bakersfield.
—Jill Cowan, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
The orphan bachelors were the men who, during that period, came to work in America’s goldfields, on its railroads, or in its restaurants and laundries.
—Mae Ngai, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2023
Gold rush fever spread like lightning across the country, and the West Coast was inundated with fortune hunters impatient for their ride north, their chance at the goldfields.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
However, comfortable was no match for supposedly easy fortunes waiting in the Yukon goldfields.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
The monument’s dusty topography has erupted in color: yellow from the hillside daisies, goldfields and tidy tips, whose ends are frosted white; purple from the phacelia and wild hyacinth; azure splashes from the lupine and baby blue eyes.
—Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
So the invasives can't handle it, but the goldfields are uniquely adapted to it.
—Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
In California’s Central Valley, Purple phacelia and yellow goldfields abound at Carrizo Plain National Monument, a grassland roughly 70 miles west of Bakersfield.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
Carpets of yellow goldfields and purple phacelia have unfurled at the Carrizo Plain National Monument, the largest intact grassland in the state’s Central Valley, about 70 miles west of Bakersfield.
—Jill Cowan, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
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First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above
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